Poultry feeder



June 14,1927. l v1,632,738

- F. W. LORD POULTRY FEEDER med April 22. 1292s Hed Wlom' anonimi y Patented .lune 14,1927. i

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED W. LORD, OF ITIPTON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR T THE OAKES MANUFACTURING v COMI'ANY, OFITIPTON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION 0F INDIANA.

roUL'TI-LY FEEDER.

Application led April `22, 1926. Serial No. 103,920.

My saidv invention relates to poultry feeders and one object of the invention is to provide a. perch which may be held in one position to support the fowls when feeding and rwhich may be folded up to prevent the same from being used as a roost, all as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which l0 Vsimilar reference characters indicate similarl parts, ,Y y

Figure V1 is a perspective of a' poult-ry feeder havingmy invention applied thereto, and4 f Figure 2, a detailed view. Reference character findicates the legs of a poultry feeder having braces 11 and 12 and cross members 13 for supporting feeding troughs 1li-which may be protectedl inl any desired manner to prevent the fowlsv from scratching the feed out of the same.

Mounted on the ends of the braces 12 which extend across the ends of the frame Y -are perch supports 15, each being prefer` ablytwisted at right angles to conform to the flat face of a perch 16 at substantially right anglesheach perch support is pivoted at 17 to an ear of the brace 12 andsaid perch support has a laterally extending lug 18, for

- engagement with the end of the brace, to

prevent theperch support from being depressed below a horizontal plane. Each perch 16 extends along the side ofthe feeder and is secured adjacent its ends to the perch supports by means of bolts 19.

The,

n Win be Obvious to those, Skilled in the art that various changes may be made in my device Without departing from the spirit of the invention and therefore I do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification but only as indicated in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my said in- .vention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A poultry feeder comprising a frame, a perch supportV pivoted to saidl frame and having laterally disposed lugs for engagev ment with the frame when the perch support is in substantially horizontal position and a perch mounted on said support, substantially as set forth.

i2.. A lpoultry feeder comprising a frame havingk a plurality of spa-ced uprights forming legs and'horizontally disposed cross bars connecting said legs and holding'them kinV fixed relation relative to each other one of said cross bars projecting beyond the legs at each yside of the frame for supporting a perch, supporting bars pivotally mounted on the project-ing portions of a pairfof said cross bars in a manner to prevent their being moved with the perch belovs1 a horizontal plane, substantially as set forth.

' 8. A poultry `feeder comprising a frame, a cross bar on said frame, a perch support pivoted on saidyeross bar, a perch mounted on said support and movable from a substantially horizontal position for supporting fowls ,to a position in which foWls cannot perch thereon, laterally disposed elements on saidperch support adapted to engage said cross bar for holding the perch support and In Witness whereof,

of April, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

FRED w. LORD. 

